88 percent of rewarded and appreciated projects begin with this one question

If you knew how to start a project so that people gave you the ol' "Atta Boy!" for it every time, wouldn't you use that method?

Via here, which is in turn via here, we learn this: if you analyze 10,000 pieces of rewarded and/or appreciated work projects (across multiple industries), 88 percent of them -- so, over 8,500 -- began with a simple question:

What difference could I make that other people would love?

Interestingly, that's somewhat similar to the "one question" idea Human …